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Famous Snacks and Dishes in Yunnan |
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Across-the-Bridge Rice Noodles

Across-the-Bridge Rice Noodles is the most famous local snack in Yunnan. The main ingredients include chicken soup, slices of meat, fresh vegetable shreds, and rice noodles. Being the key to this snack, the soup is piping hot, although there is no steam coming out of it. Before eating, put in the bowl the meat slices, vegetable slices, rice noodles, and stir them, then there is wait of about 5 minutes till the ingredients are done. It is delicious as the meat is very tender, and the soup is really wonderful.
Steam-Pot-Chicken

Steam-Pot-Chicken is a famous local dish in Yunnan. It is
renowned for its unique way of cooking, aromatic flavor and rich trace
element of iron. The secret of this dish is the steam-pot which bears
a tube in the middle. To cook this dish, firstly, put a chicken in
the special steam-pot, and then add some ingredients of medicinal
herbs like pseudo ginseng, etc, at last cover the pot. Secondly, put
the pot into a larger pot which is filled with water. The chicken is
cooked by the steam coming through the tube, and the steam gathers and
combines with the chicken in the steam-pot. Therefore the dish turned
out to be tender, delicious and nutritious.
Yiliang Roast Duck

Yiliang Roast Duck is a popular local dish. The way of
processing is quite unique. Firstly, discard the feather of the duck,
cut an opening under the wing, take out the guts and remove the feet,
put in some ingredients and pump the duck up. Secondly hang the duck
in a furnace with a hook and roast it over the fire evenly and slowly,
the fuel is pine needles and the duck should be turned from side to
side constantly, and some honey, fat and duck oil are smeared on it.
When it is done, the meat is tender, and the skin is crispy. It often
serves with some green onion, jam, pepper and salt.
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